A collection of eight short stories from the thriller genre, including tales of murder, revenge, theft and dangerous speculation, from authors such as Jan Mark, Vivien Alcock, Brian Morse and Robert Westall.
Aidan Chambers was a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land (1999). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.